William R. Terrill

William Rufus Terrill (21 April 1834-8 October 1862) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War. Terrill was the brother of Confederate general James B. Terrill, and they were both killed while commanding brigades.

Biography
William Rufus Terrill was born in Covington, Virginia in 1834, the older brother of James B. Terrill. He graduated from West Point in 1853, and Philip Sheridan was suspended from the academy for one year for getting into a fist fight with Terrill. From 1853 to 1854, he taught mathematics at West Point, and he served in Florida during the third war against the Seminole Native Americans. Terrill was opposed to the secession of his home state, and he decided to remain in the US Army when the American Civil War broke out, while his brother James sided with the Confederacy. On 9 September 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier-General and took command of the 33rd Brigade in the Army of the Ohio, and he was mortally wounded by a shell fragment at the Battle of Perryville in Kentucky. His brother James would also die in combat.